HAIKU 31/BABY

Your words reach my ears
longing for "baby" greetings
when morning arrives.


© Valerie Bridgeman
January 31, 2014

HAIKU 30/ART LOST

Decision-making:
art lost on simple people
bent on not thinking.


© Valerie Bridgeman
January 30, 2014

HAIKU 29/COME STRONG

Some moments come strong;

leave you feeling you can do

anything but fail

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 29, 2014

HAIKU 28/HUNT

Losing you was hard
but trying to find myself
was a treasure hunt

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 28, 2014

HAIKU 27/MORNING GLORIES

Morning glories as
sun replaces moon on watch
and you stretch awake.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 27, 2014

HAIKU 26/NAZI GHOSTS

Walking Berlin streets

surrounded by Nazi ghosts;

ancient smell of death

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 26, 2014

HAIKU 25/SECOND BORN

I remember my
birth pangs, caesarean cuts
to get you here whole.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 25, 2014

HAIKU 24/HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Pamela, I bless
the way your life honors all
because you were born.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 24, 2014

HAIKU 23/EMBRACED

Unexpected touch

takes all the grief away, now

I rest safe, embraced.

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 23, 2014

HAIKU 22/GRATEFUL

Love, your kiss grabs me

like arms around my waist, glad

for lips that love me.

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 22, 2014

HAIKU 21/BRAVE

You are brave because 
you chose living over death
courage over safe.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 21, 2014

HAIKU 20/BE CLEAR

Make no mistake, son
they will require your life too
when you stand up strong

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 20, 2014

HAIKU 19/UNCOVER YOURSELF

Masks don't hide faces

without restricting beauty:

uncover yourself.

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 19, 2014

HAIKU 18/SAY SORRY

Say "sorry" without
advertising your ego
or trying to score.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 18, 2014

HAIKU 17/ARMS

Three separate times
I looked for you to hold me
your arms were right there.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 17, 2014

HAIKU 16/COMFORT

Like water finds beds
our friendship settles into
a stream of comfort.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 16, 2014

HAIKU 15/WISHES

Every child blows
out birthday candles, hoping
wishes do come true.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 15, 2014

HAIKU 14/WAITING

Anticipated
hot kisses on my cheeks, lips
make me blush waiting.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 14, 2014

HAIKU 13/MOVE

How urgent it feels

yearning for abundant life;

desire makes us move.

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 13, 2014

HAIKU 12/HERITAGE

Kinky hair, divine.

My head wears her heritage--

Strands of Africa

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 12, 2014

HAIKU 11/TEACHER

You teach me courage
by the way you walk forward
against forceful winds

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 11, 2014

HAIKU 10/LION KING

Simba roared and I
cheered like Nala, bowed in honor
roared back in power.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 10, 2014

HAIKU 9/LEAD

To lead takes courage
and gumption and gall and guts
and truth telling too

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 9, 2014

HAIKU 8/DREAMERS

Dream my dreams with me

then let's wake up, live them loud;

wipe sleep from our eyes

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 8, 2014

HAIKU 7/FRIED HOPES

Southern memories
creep into my mind's corners
recreate fried hopes

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 7, 2014

HAIKU 6/NECTAR

Coffee is nectar--
like ambrosia is to gods--
with a caffeine punch

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 6, 2014

HAIKU 5/LOVING

I will make you laugh

at the very thought of me

if you want loving.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 5, 2014

HAIKU 4.2/PROMISE

You will surely see
another side of me soon
if you keep staring.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 4, 2014

HAIKU 4/DANGEROUS

Amazing woman
when she is not scared, but fear
makes her dangerous.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 4, 2014

HAIKU 3/COLLIDE

Worlds collide on sight
as Saturn moons Venus and
laughs at Milky ways

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 3, 2014

HAIKU 2/ARBITRARY

Grieving, solitude
not safe sitting in my tears
death, arbitrary

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 2, 2014

HAIKU 1/SAIL

You will never know

if you can weather the storm

if you don't set sail.

© Valerie Bridgeman

January 1, 2014